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Season 2 - Episode 255 - Being the one who holds the door · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So in a world where I keep hearing about how rude people
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  are and about how many people don't want to do their jobs and
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  how people are lazy and no one showing up.
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  And La La La La La La La La la. I hear it constantly.
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  I hear it from everybody. I hear it from my clients.
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  I hear it from my family, All of it.
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  And and yes, is some of it true? Yes.
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  Maybe all of it's true. Maybe in all those instances it
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  is in fact true. And remember how I always say
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  two things can be true at the same time.
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  So this is the second side of that coin.
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  The flip side of that coin is there are great people out
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  there. There are hard workers out
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  there. There are people who are doing
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  things the right way. There are people who are
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  fantastic at their job. There are people who are willing
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  to help you and let you go in front of you in line.
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  There are people who want to hold doors.
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  There are people who will make your day different.
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  When Tractor Supply getting stuff for the girls and I go to
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  check out, I've got this giant wagon filled with all these
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  heavy bags for all their stuff that they need.
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  And two gentlemen in front of me who are buying some sort of car
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  part I know nothing about. Looks like it may be parts of
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  the tractor because I know nothing about that.
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  Look at me and say you can go in front of us, man.
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  And I looked at them and I was like, you guys are so sweet, but
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  I'm going to be a real pain in the butt because I've got to
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  return something too. So while I appreciate the
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  gesture and I want to thank you deeply, I decline and they
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  started laughing and they said. I love the fact that you just
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  said you were going to be a pain in the butt.
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  I'm like, I am. I don't ever receive the girls
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  going to struggle with it potentially, so I don't want to
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  hold you guys up. And it was this really cute
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  moment, but it reminded me of the fact that there are so many
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  people out there that are good. And there are so many people
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  trying to do good and there are so many people wanting to do
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  good and then are doing good. And we get hung up on looking at
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  the problems. And remember, our gift of being
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  able to see the problems is supposed to be used like salt in
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  short doses. You don't obsess on it.
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  And then you go and fix the problems.
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  Or you work around them. You do not stay in the problem.
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  You don't keep eating the salt because it gives you
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  hypertension. It causes your body to go awry.
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  So. The important part of this
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  message is who do you want to be?
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  Do you want to be the person that complaints about it, or do
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  you actually want to be the person that's holding the doors?
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  Do you want to be the person that's doing these things the
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  right way, that that are saying hello, smiling at people?
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  Instead of walking with your head down, actually smile at
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  people? Do you want to be the person
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  that's you know? Giving the the the little tiny
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  wave in traffic for someone to go in front of you.
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  Do you want to pay for somebody else's coffee?
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  Are you sharing yourself? You know, one of the my favorite
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  things that I love to do is buy books that are books that have
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  changed my life and leave them in places for people to find
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  them. Because I think that that makes
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  a huge difference when you read something that's really
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  compelling. So leave a book or give a book
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  to somebody. Actually give a book to somebody
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  and say this book really helped me in my life and I just want to
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  pay it forward and give the book to somebody else.
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  You know, one of my favorite things that we do out here
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  because my girls are such a gift to me.
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  And I have 43 chickens, 42 of them are hens.
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  One is a rooster. So guess what happens?
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  We have a lot of eggs and people often ask me, do you sell your
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  eggs? And the answer is no.
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  I do not sell my eggs. I give my eggs away.
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  I give them to my friends. I give them to all the delivery
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  people that come here, My U, PS:, man, my FedEx guy, my
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  mailman, everybody who shows up and helps out and delivers
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  things. Part of the.
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  Girls food. I buy it from Tractor Supply.
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  Shameless plug for them. Part of their my food comes from
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  online scratch and pack because they have awesome, awesome,
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  awesome food for them. Everybody gets eggs from these
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  girls. The fire department.
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  I'll stop by the fire department if I have a whole bunch of them.
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  Give the mix. I love doing that, and why it's
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  so important to me is because I get to share and watch the
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  excitement of people going Oh my gosh, this is so awesome.
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  Especially since their rainbow package of eggs looks so nice
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  when you get it. But it's not just about me
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  giving away their eggs because I have too many.
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  It's about I want to pay it forward.
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  I want people to feel good. So that's why I do it.
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  It's about the excitement of this person will be so happy
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  when they get them. So figure out what you can do in
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  this world and go out there and pay it forward and make someone
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  smile. Because I'm going to be the one
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  holding the doors and I'm going to be the one smiling and
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  passing out eggs and doing all these little things.
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  Just like I do this podcast every day.
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  There is no money made in this podcast.
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  But you know what? It's why don't they asked me all
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  the time to monetize it And I'm like, Nope, you know what?
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  I'm just giving this away and paying it forward.
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  So I hope you enjoy. I hope you know you're loved and
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  appreciated and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Have a blessed day everybody. Bye.